MOSCOW (Reuters) – Russia’s environmental control body, which is investigating unexplained poisonous pollutants off the east coast of the country, said Thursday that it had discovered particularly higher degrees of pollutants in the vicinity of rivers than in the waters themselves.
Greenpeace warned last week of an ecological crisis in the waters of Russia’s Kamchatka region, a volcanic peninsula in the Pacific, where several sea creatures died, their corpses washed up on shore.
Russia opened an unscrupulous investigation on Wednesday to identify the cause of the contamination. Conservation organization WWF said the maximum maximum is probably due to a highly poisonous soluble substance.
The control body Rosprirodnadzor said in a report thursday that it discovered the maximum levels of phosphates, iron and phenol in rivers entering Avacha Bay in the Far East, several times more than in marine waters.
Greenpeace said the evidence did not include sufficient data, that the cause of the contaminants remained unknown and that the official investigation was taking some time to worry.
“The effects that have been won are not enough to give a complete picture of what happened,” Vladimir Chuprov, allocation director of Greenpeace Russia, said in a statement, adding that the heavy steel content of water is still being investigated.
There is also a lack of a laboratory of samples taken from dead animals, Chuprov said.
The Investigative Committee, a U. S. FBI Russian, said dead marine life ran aground off the coast from September 1 to October 3 and that seawater contained oil components, adding phenol, and had changed color.
(Reporting through Tom Balmforth; written through Polina Ivanova; edited through Tothrough Chopra and Frances Kerry)
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